books

10 PRINT CHR$(205.5 + RND(1)); : GOTO 10

A whole book about a single line of code. By ten authors.

Alien Phenomenology

or What It's Like to Be a Thing

A bold new metaphysics that explores how all things—from atoms to green chiles, cotton to computers—interact with, perceive, and experience one another.

How to Do Things with Videogames

A fresh look at computer games as a mature mass medium with unlimited potential for cultural transformation.

Newsgames

Journalism at Play

A book about the history and future of games in journalism. Co-authored with Simon Ferrari and Bobby Schweizer.

Racing the Beam

The Atari Video Computer System

An accessible book about the Atari VCS as a platform. Co-authored with Nick Montfort.

Persuasive Games

The Expressive Power of Videogames

A book about how videogames make arguments: rhetoric, computing, politics, advertising, learning.

Unit Operations

An Approach to Videogame Criticism

A book about comparative videogame criticism: games, philosophy, literature, and art.

Elementary Greek

Koine for Beginniners. By Christine Gatchell. Audio companions read by Ian Bogost.

When I was in school, I learned Greek, and I think everyone else should too.

Platform Studies

A book series from the MIT Press, Ian Bogost and Nick Montfort, series editors